Genesis 31:4-13

"And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah unto the field unto his flock, and said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me. And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flocks bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ring-streaked. Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. And it came to pass at the time the flocks conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled. And the angel of God said unto me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here am I. And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth to thee. I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst a pillar, where thou vowest a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out of this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity."

Here is supplementary information to that given in Genesis 30, and it appears that the parti-colored cattle were due to a providential act of God, and not in any way connected with the peeled rods (except, possibly, by their being some kind of test of Jacob's faith). The key thing in his enrichment was the fore-knowledge afforded by the divine dream that lay behind his choice of wages.

"And changed my wages ten times ..." This is said to mean, merely "numerous times," after the customary Hebrew usage. "The number ten expresses the idea of completeness.[7] It is used in Revelation simply to express multiplicity, as in the case of the "ten horns" (Revelation 18). No matter what Laban did, every change turned out to the benefit of Jacob.

It is significant that this dream's connection with events that occurred at the very beginning of the six years of service is dramatically emphasized in the Samaritan version. "It gives us the whole of this dream at the end of Genesis 30:36."[8]